BRIGGS, Raymond (illus.); AHLBERG, Allan.

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A Bit More Bert. First US edition, the author's copy, with his posthumous book label. This is the sequel to The Adventures of Bert (2001), which sold over 14,000 copies in the first three months after it was released.Briggs (1934-2022) was the winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124). He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982), and the perennial classic The Snowman (1978).

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